Today,
15 December we see the launch into space of the Soyuz TMA-19M spaceship,
destined to rendezvous with the International Space Station that has been in
operation fifteen years.
Onboard
are veteran cosmonaut (six spaceflights) Yuri Malenchenko, NASA’s astronaut Tim
Kopra and British Major Tim Peake. [What are the odds on two Tims being crammed
into the space module!]
The
blast off was perfect from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. [Of interest
to me, at least, Kazakhstan is where the psychic facility is situated, as
featured in my 1970s spy e-books The
Prague Papers and The Tehran Text,
published by Crooked Cat!]
Soyuz rocket blast-off - Wikipedia commons
Coincidentally,
and of much less moment, today sees the launch of the third ‘Avenging Cat’
adventure, Cataclysm.
The
e-book can be ordered through this single link (that covers all countries’
sites):
The
first two novels in the series are:
#1
– Catalyst
#2
– Catacomb
Interesting,
that the first Briton in space was Helen Sharman, who trained as a chemist.
That was way back in 1991, and she spent about eight days in the Mir
space-station. Why interesting? Well, Cat Vibrissae, the heroine of the ‘Avenging
Cat’ series also trained as a chemist – but then went into modelling, as it
paid better, thereby funding her vendetta against Cerberus and its owner, Loup
Malefice. She also happens to be pretty good at free climbing and taekwondo.
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